151 3 Role models their fight for equal voting rights and joined the war effort instead. Finally, in 1917, suffrage (of a sort) was given to British women – just as long as you were twenty-one and a home-owner (or married to a home-owner), or if you were over thirty. By this stage, other countries had already beaten the UK to full voting rights for women: Finland in 1906; Iceland in 1913; and Denmark in 1915 – you can count on the Scandinavians! The women of Saudi Arabia had to wait until 2011, but they got there in the end. Equal voting rights? Thanks, Suffragettes – you have our vote! by this stage – á þessu stigi A woman campaigning for the vote is restrained by British policemen, circa 1910.
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